Professor Vincent Walsh

Vincent Walsh, Ph.D. is Professor of Human Brain Research,
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology,
University College London.
He is on the Editorial Board of
Brain Stimulation:
Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in
Neuromodulation.

Vin’s Visual Cognition Group is concerned with detection,
discrimination,
and short-term memory of visual stimuli. A key part of his approach to
the work is to study interactions between different regions of visual
cortex, and interactions between visual and non-visual areas by using
transcranial magnetic stimulation, psychophysics, eye movements, and
electrophysiological recording methods.

Human vision is a
dominant force
in our behavior and the study of vision therefore takes research
questions into many different areas of perception outside of his more
obviously visual work on visual search, the functions of the parietal
cortex, the frontal eye fields, and how the brain changes with learning.
These include the perception of time, visuomotor learning, music, and
mathematics  apparently different functions which often draw upon
the
same brain resources. His group is engaged in extending the use of TMS
in combination with other methodologies, in particular
electrophysiological recording and work with neuropsychological
patients.